Short Cuts: 'One in three' in rural areas experienced poverty

A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report has concluded that one in three people in rural areas experienced poverty at some time between 1990 and 1996, but the problem was masked by 'apparent affluence', making social exclusion 'harder to address'. It says increasing gentrification in the countryside and policies to cut down ...

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